Taglines: Sometimes terrible things happen quite naturally.
The Reflecting Skin movie storyline. Dolphin Blue: It’s all so horrible you know, the nightmare of childhood. And it only gets worse. One day you’ll wake up, and you’ll be past it. Your beautiful skin will wrinkle and shrivel up, you’ll lose your hair, your sight, your memory. Your blood will thicken, teeth turn yellow and loose. You will start to stink and fart and all your friends will be dead. You’ll succumb to arthritis, angina, senile dementia, you’ll piss yourself, shit yourself, drool at the mouth.
The Reflecting Skin is a 1990 British-Canadian horror film written and directed by Philip Ridley and starring Jeremy Cooper, Viggo Mortensen and Lindsay Duncan. Described by its director as a “mythical interpretation” of childhood, the film weaves elements of vampirism, Surrealism, black comedy, and religious zealotry throughout its narrative about the perceptions and fantasies of an impressionable young boy in 1950s America. The film places the majority of its action outdoors around the dilapidated farms and in the wheat fields of Idaho shot in idyllic sunlight which belies the dark secrets of the characters and plot.
The Reflecting Skin (1990)
Directed by: Philip Ridley
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper, Sheila Moore, Duncan Fraser, David Longworth, Robert Koons, David Bloom, Codie Lucas Wilbee, Sherry Bie
Screenplay by: Philip Ridley
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Cinematography by: Dick Pope
Film Editing by: Scott Thomas
Costume Design by: Joanne Hansen
Set Decoration by: Andrea French
Art Direction by: Rick Roberts
Music by: Nick Bicât
MPAA Rating: R for intense violent behavior, and for sensuality.
Distributed by: Miramax Films
Release Date: September 9, 1990
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